shoujo guilt, reading, writing backlog

Jun 13, 2005 22:15

*giggles at the Furuba iPod icon flamika made* Love it. ^^ (Plenty of them over in her icon journal, avataresque, for anyone who doesn't follow her. [/pimping ( Read more... )

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ginny_t June 14 2005, 11:16:45 UTC
meh. I deny the shoujo guilt. I defy the shoujo guilt! Yes, they're pretty excessive. But they're a lot of fun and they're well done. For me, the end of ParaKiss redeemed the series. And Hot Gimmick is done well, because if it weren't, I would've closed the book & not cared...

And there's nothing wrong with being girly!

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umadoshi June 14 2005, 23:53:41 UTC
One more vol. of ParaKiss! I'm really looking forward to it (even if it is mismatched. *pouts*).

I have a complex about being girly, I admit. Even with my bounciness and love of sparkles and all that. :/ I think it's my mental association with girly-girls from when I was a kid . . . never wanted to be remotely like them (still don't. Ugh).

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snapdragon76 June 14 2005, 16:23:36 UTC
I started reading a lot more shojo than I ever had before. Furuba kicked it off, then MARS and now Hot Gimmick. I'm hopeless.

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umadoshi June 14 2005, 23:51:54 UTC
Furuba doesn't seem at all the same as the others to me. I think it's because (well, I can't compare it to ParaKiss or HG yet, not having finished them) Furuba's *structure* is so amazing. I really enjoy the other shoujo series, but they're not built so intelligently (and I don't fall for the characters in anything like the same way). I found with MARS that things just happened, and pieces of backstory didn't really have any foreshadowing or sense of inevitability. I still enjoyed it immensely, but it didn't give me the same satisfaction of pieces falling perfectly into places you somehow always knew were waiting for them.

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snapdragon76 June 15 2005, 13:50:54 UTC
Yeah, Furuba definitely isn't your typical shojo series. There's a lot of mystery and intrigue involved. Which is all good, believe me!

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snapdragon76 June 14 2005, 16:24:41 UTC
Ohh, and you've received a notice already?! *pouts* When I placed my order, they said I wasn't gonna get mine shipped until Friday...

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